Jules Jammal

Jules Yusuf Jammal (1 April 1932-29 October 1956) was a First Lieutenant in the Syrian Navy and the Egyptian Navy who became a folk hero for his suicide attack against the French Navy ship Jeanne d'Arc during the Suez Crisis of 1956.

Biography
Jules Yusuf Jammal was born on 1 April 1932 in al-Mishtaya, Homs Governorate, Syria to an Orthodox Christian Arab family. He joined the Syrian Navy as an officer, but in 1956 he decided to volunteer in the Egyptian Navy to fight against the imperialism of the United Kingdom and France. Jammal rammed an explosives-laden boat into the French Navy cruiser Jeanne d'Arc on 29 October 1956, killing himself at the age of 24. Jammal was hailed as a hero of Arab nationalism], and an example of a non-[[Muslim suicide bomber in the Middle East.